Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America was offered a new eye-compelling antidote to the comic books-a 64-page, bi-monthly called True Comics (10?60? a year). The publisher was Parents' Magazine, headed by able George J. Hecht. Advisory board included Historian David S. Muzzey, George Gallup (Gallup Poll), Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney. The idea: to fight fire with fire...
...selected "All This and Heaven Too" as "the worst ordeal of the year"; the last five minutes of "The Great Dictator" as "the worst scene of the year"; Henry Fonda's work in "The Return of Frank James" as "the worst performance of the year"; and Jane Withers (with Mickey Rooney) as "the most obnoxious child of the year...
...hand to referee a cardful of amateur fights in Philadelphia was as rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
...program: Contralto Risë Stevens, Baritone Nelson Eddy, the National Symphony under Dr. Hans Kindler, Irving (God Bless America) Berlin, Actors Mickey Rooney, Raymond Massey, Charlie Chaplin, Actress Ethel Barrymore. Master of Ceremonies: Douglas Fairbanks...
...line-up next December will wipe out the ward system of politics, and councilmen will have to run on a city-wide program. Harvard representatives will find themselves philosophising to the factory workers from Lechmere, and Mickey Sullivan will have to chat with the Communists of Harvard Square. Perhaps when East Cambridge and Brattle Street are concerned with each other, the "good people of the town" will be a little less parochial, the "others" less resentful; and Harvard-Cambridge relationships more friendly...